Improvement in whiffletrees



L. BARNES.

Whiifietree.

Patented Oct. 30, 1866.

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N4 PETERS. PHOTD-LITHUGRAPMER WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS BARNES, OF WATERFORD, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIFFLETREES.

bpecification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,164, dated October 30, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.-

.Be it known that I, Lnwrs BARNES, of Waterford, in the county of Oakland, State of Michigan have invented a new and useful Improvement in Double-Trees and Whiffletrees; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan sectional view of a doubletree with my improvement applied to it; Fig. '2, a plan sectional View of a whiffletree with A represents a double-tree, which may be of the usual form and construction, and having plates B B, of malleable cast-iron, at its front and rear sides at each end. These plates are cast with rounded outer ends, a, so as'to we tend around the ends of the double-tree, which are rounded.

Each plate B is secured to the double-tree by a screw, b, and the hooks O, on which the eyes of the whiffletrees are fitted, have their shanks c passing through both plates B B, and through the double-tree, a screw being out on the ends of the shanks to work into nuts d in the rear plates B.

By screwing up the hooks O, shoulders e on the shanks are made to bear snugly against the front plates B. By this arrangement the plates are firmly secured to the double-tree, and malleable cast-iron plates made to answer equally as well as wrought-iron straps.

The whiffletree D has two similar malleable cast-iron plates, E E, secured centrally to its front and rear sides by screws f, and through these plates and the whiffletree a shank, g, passes, having an eye, h, at its rear end, the front end of said shank having a screw-thread out upon it to screw into or through a nut, i, at the center of the front plate E, as shown clearly in Fig. 2.

The trace-hooks F at the ends of the \vhiffletrees are formed with rings or hands j, which are provided with internal screws to screw upon the ends of the whiffletrees.

By this arrangement the double-treev and whiffletrees may be ironed with the greatest facility, very economically, and in such a manner as to render the double-tree and whiffletrees far more durable than when the small wrought-iron plates are used, which are simply washers.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The malleable cast-iron plates B, secured to the front and rear sides of the double-tree A by screws 1) and the shanks c of the hooks C, and the malleable cast-iron plates E E, secured to the front and rear sides of the whiffletrees D by screws f and the shank g of the eye h, together with the trace-hooks F, provided with rings or bands j, having internal screwthreads to screw upon the ends of the whiffletrees, substantially as shown and described.

LEWIS BARNES.

Witnesses: I

Rrorn). BROWNSON, J osEPHUs GOODENOUGH. 

